Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,417, Ebe Everit, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn,
Everit, Ebe
S 15,417
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CONTENTS

Connecticut 17/7/23.
Ebenezer
Sharon in the State of Conn. who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Chapelle of the Reg t commanded by Col. Housman in the Conn. T. line for 13 mo & 28 days
46 44 / 100
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn. at the rate of 46 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Sept. 1833 and sent to Pensioner. Sharon. $46.44 Cents
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 33 116.10 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 34 23.22
$139.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by M. B. Palmer Clerk, book 6 Vol. Three Page 12.
Sharon on 18 th Oct. 33, that his grade of corporal claimed was not by the 10th line of Col. Housman's Comp. 5 Dec. 33. Capt. 28 th Dec. 33.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 16 April 1833, from 4th Sept 1833 to 4th May 1834. Capt. 28 th Dec. 33 Nov. 1841.

State of Connecticut, County of Litchfield. P. Probate district of Sharon.
At a Court of Probate for the District of Sharon held at Salisbury within & for said district on the 30 th day of July A D 1832. Present.
Samuel Church Esq. In use.
On this 30. day of July A D 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Sharon, the same being a Court opened & now sitting. Ele Ewell a resident of Sharon in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut & Probate District of Sharon, age Seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed Jan y . 7 th 1832. That he was born in Sharon in the said County of Litchfield in the year 1754, I have no record of my age, but I suppose there is a Record of my age on the town record of the said town of Sharon where by law all births are to be recorded. I lived and re- sided in the said town of Sharon when I entered the service of the United States and have lived in said Sharon ever since the Revolutionary war and am now live residing there. In the year 1775 May the 8 th I enlisted in what I suppose were Connecticut State troops

under Major Samuel Elmore then of Sharon and for the term of seven months, the officers of my company were Lieutenants, Amos Chapin of Sharon & Oliver Parmalee of Bethlehem & Ensign Shepherd. The principal officers were Major Elmore aforesaid and Colonel Heman of Woodbury; we marched on the latter part of May or first of June 1775 and we marched the Stillwater, to the head of Lake George, to Ticonderoga & from thence to Crown Point in the State of New York, I was stationed at Crown Point & performed my time of duty there until the expiration of my time of enlistment. I was in no battles but kept guard at Crown Point & performed such other services as were required of me. There were only three companies at Crown Point while I was there & these belonged to Col. Heman's Regiment, the other troops belonging to our Regiment were stationed at Ticonderoga. The whole of the troops stationed at Crown Point & Ticonderoga except a few who were left as a guard were marched about the middle of September 1775 to Canada among the guard left behind at Crown Point I was one, who did not go to Canada until the end of my company & Regiment. Genl. Woodbury was with the troops where I was some of the time so was Colonel Ethan Allen. I never had any  no written discharge from service. I have in my possession a copy of a pay Roll of the 3 d Company of the 4 th Regiment raised by order of the General Assembly of Connecticut May 1775. Certified by Samuel Elmore. Colonel Certified

To be a true copy of said pay roll by O. Ellsworth Clerk of the pay table committee at Hartford which payroll contains my name as having enlisted May 8, and that is the company to which I belonged as before stated, and I have no other documentary evidence in my possession by which I can prove my service.
And said Applicant further declares, that in the month of June 1776 about the 1 st of the month, I enlisted in the company of Capt. Benjamin Mills at New Hartford in the county of Litchfield for the term seven months the Regiments were Brimfield Battery and a Battery of Sharon, & Ensign Smith of Bethlem. The Field Officers of the Regiment to which I belonged were Major Deering Lieut Col. Hobbie & Colonel Bradley. I then resided in said Sharon; we marched to New York City, & while on our way we first heard of the declaration of Independence; we remained in New York about one week & then we marched to Bayonne Point in the Jerseys, nearly opposite Staten Island, we kept guard at this position, the British troops then being at Staten Island, I staid at this place until the City of New York was taken by the enemy. Soon after I was marched to near Fort Lee at a place called Conniet Neighborhood in New Jersey we kept guard there until Fort Washington was taken by the enemy about the time of the Armistice General Sherman's giving season, when Fort Lee was evacuated. I frequently saw General

Greene & one saw General Washington while we lay near Fort Lee, after we left Fort Lee the army retreated through the Jerseys, and I soon joined the army at Trenton where I was with the main army during its retreat having been half of the way up to New London with some of the British & Indians at our heels. My time of service expired soon after I reached Trenton, at any rate my time expired on the night of the capture of the Hessians at Trenton by Genl. Washington. I never received any written discharge from this service nor have I any documentary proof of this time of service. I am known to many persons residing in the town of Shrewsbury who can testify to my character for veracity & their belief of my service as a soldier of the revolution and among others to Hon. John Cotton Smith, Hon. Asahel Stearns, Hon. Charles F. Sedgwick, & Cyrus Swan Esq. - And I do hereby affirm with every claim whatever to a pension or annuity at the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agen- cy of any State.
I do hereby certify that the above is true and correct
I further state that during the last time of duty herein before set forth, I was appointed a corporal of the company to which I belonged, and received a corporal's warrant which I brought home with me & kept it for some years & by reason of which

I was exempted from Militia duty afterwards in the Militia of this State but since then this warrant has been lost or destroyed.
Sworn to & subscribed the day &
year aforesaid.
Ebenezer
At the same Court in Open Court personally appeared Adonijah Wakam and Thomas Heath of Sharon in the County of Litchfield State of Connecticut, known to this Court to be credible and respectable persons who being first duly sworn do testify & say that they are well acquainted with the Everitt of said Sharon who has sworn to & subscribed to the foregoing declaration and do know that he enlisted in the service of the United States under Major Samuel Elymore as by him is above stated that he enlisted for seven months & marched to Crown Point in the State of New York. He belonged to the same Company with the Everitt seven for a time stationed with him at Crown Point but we left Crown Point about the middle of September 1775 for Canada & left the said the Everitt at Crown Point where said him no more during

his term of enlistment, but always in a manner he served faithfully until the expiration of his term of service we have ever since known Mr Everett as a citizen of much worth and sterling honesty veracity
Thomas D. Yeath
Ebenezer Maxon
At the same Court in Open Court Personally appeared here in Court John Lord and Solomon White of Sharon in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut and having been first sworn according to law, as on their oaths testify & say that that they are acquainted with Elie Everett who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration and do know that he enlisted in the Com- pany of Captain Benjamin Mills in the Service of the United States that he marched with said company to New York, to Bergen Point and to the vicinity of Fort Lee as he has therein stated, that he enlisted in said Service for seven months. We belonged to the same Company with Mr Everett & served with him in the manner set forth by him in his said declaration & we left him in the Jerseys, we came in from English neighborhood to

Rich Hill & Mr Evertt went on to join the main army under General Washington in its retreat thro the Jerseys, and saw no more of Mr Evertt until the term of his service had expired when he returned home to said Sharon where we had arrived before him. and we know Mr Evertt to be a credible person Sworn to & subscribed year & day afo.
John Lord
Solomon White
And this Court doth certify that the depositions and Affidavits above annexed were sworn to according to Law by the above named Thomas Heath, Adonijah Mearns, John Lord and Solomon White and by them severally subscribed in Open Court. And this Court doth declare its opinion after the in- vestigation of the matter and after putting the inter- rogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And this Court further certifies that neither the said Thomas Heath Adonijah Mearns, John Lord nor Solomon White are the persons who have signed the preceding certificates and Affidavits, but they are all of them residents in the Town of Sharon in the County of Litch- field and are credible persons and that their state- ments are entitled to credit. By the Court, Abijah C. Peet Clerk,

I Abijah C. Peet Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Sharon do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Eliza Everett for a Pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at the Probate Office in Salisbury this 30 th day of July A.D. 1832. Abijah C. Peet Clerk
I Samuel Church Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Sharon do cer- tify that Abijah C. Peet Esquire whose certifi- cate is above annexed is the Clerk of said Court duly appointed and sworn, that said certificate is subscribed by him in his own proper hand writing and that the seal by him above affixed is the proper seal of said Court. Given under my hand at the Probate Office in Salisbury on this 30 th day of July A.D. 1832
Samuel Church.

No 4249
Ebenezer name on muster Roll in Pigeon Hole, for 6 mos. 28 days.
21. March. 1833.
Adm'd 13 mos. 28 ds.
40 3 33 3 11 46 45

Ellsworth Jan 21
J R R
Jan 25 1834
Pennock
Hon.
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City

Glasgow Feb. 27/34
Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War department Sir
In answer to your letter of the 28 th inst I find the report of Mr Edwards pointing out the necessity of a specific statement of the period of service and rank - as it respects the term of service and rank I held as Corporal this both I have attested under oath before Judge Church this you will perceive by a reference to the first declaration I made and if I am not mistaken there is no contradiction between my first and last statement made to you my first statement confirms all the rest my term of service as well as the rank I sustained which is all you required in your Brief as to my service as Corporal in the campaign of 76 you say that no train

of this claim is to be found in my decla- ration. You will find in the declaration before Judge Church the whole of this statement complete. This you can answer you have already in your deposition which may be ascertained by a refer- ence thereto. Now Sir you claim in your Report made by the Commissioners of Pen- sions that I must prove my period of service the rank I sustained as Corporal and if I have no surviving witnesses then this fact must be established un- der oath. The period of service and rank has been already attested to and the payroll which shows my rank and term of service in the year 78 you have in your deposition which I trans- mit you some nine months since I am old and feeble and I can see no reason and consistency in requiring me to to prove fact I cannot state any thing further than what I have state- d and I think it is putting me to unnecessary trouble and expense.

I hope you will consider my case and make no further requisition of me than what you have made of my neighbor Mr. Whitt. I shall expect no further communication from you your honor will prove in it is putting me to unnecessary expense if you think it right and equitable to grant me my claim I shall be very happy to receive it otherwise I remain your
most Obedt Servt
John Emerton
Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary
of War Washington City

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Nov. 25 th 1841.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The adm re of Ebe Everitt, dec d , a Pensioner on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Forty six Dollars and 44 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1839, to the 4 th January 1840.
Respectfully, yours,
W. L. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

I Joel Chaffe of Sharon in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut. Depose and say that I am seventy three years of age. - that I have during sixty five years. lived a near neighbour to Ebe Everitt of said Sharon - that in the years 1775 - and 1776. the general report in the neighbourhood was, that the said Ebe Everitt, was in the service of his country, as a soldier, - and I believe he served in both of said years - and further the deponent says that he believes the said Ebe Everitt is seventy eight years of age - and further that the said Ebe Everitt sustains a good Moral Character - Joel Chaffe
Litchfield County ss Sharon Jan y . the 2 nd 1833 Personally Joel Chaffe signer of the above Deposition, and made oath to the truth of the same - - the said Joel Chaffe, sustains a good Character for truth and veracity: - before me Samuel E. Everitt J. d. of the Peace

I Frederick Gidley, of Sharon, in Litchfield County, and State of Connecticut, depose and say, that I am a settled Minister in the Town of said Sharon, and have been for a number of years last past - and that Ebe Everett is a resident of s d Town and that I believe the said Everett to be seventy Eight years of age - and I believe it to be the general belief in the neighborhood where I and he reside - that the said Ebe Everett was a soldier in the Revolutionary war - and that he sustains a fair moral character -
Frederick Gidley
Litchfield County ss. Sharon December the 29 th 1832 Personally appeared the above named deponent. Frederick Gidley, who is now a settled Minister of the Gospel, in good standing - in s d Town of Sharon, - and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed - Before me Samuel C. Everett Justice of the Peace

I John Lord of Sharon in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut, depose and say that I am 75 years of age - that in year 1776. Ebe Everett of said Sharon - now an applicant for a Pension - enlisted in a company commanded by Capt Benj Mills for seven months - and served in said company in the service of the United States - as in the affidavit subscribed by myself and Salomon White - and attached see to the said Ebe Everett's declaration is set forth - my means of knowing the fact, of the services of the s d Ebe Everett, in the company commanded by Capt Mills in '76 - are, that previous to the year 1776, and at that time I was well acquainted with, and resided a near neighbour, to him, and that in the year 1776 I enlisted, and served, in s d company, commanded by said Mills - to which company the s d Ebe Everett belonged, and in which he served - and further the deponent says that previous to, and ever since the Revolutionary War, he has resided near to, and been well acquainted with the s d Ebe Everett, and that he sustains a fair moral character -
John Lord
Litchfield County ss Sharon February the 6 th 1833.
Personall appeared before me, the above named John Lord signor of the above affidavit and made oath to the truth of the above - The above named John Lord is a creditable Witness - Samuel E Everett Jres. of the Peace

At about Probate for the district of Sharon herein at Simsbury on the 10. day of March A.D. 1893. Present Samuel Church Esq. Judge.
The Everett of Sharon in said district presented this court in further proof of her claim to a pension the affidavits of Joel Chaffee, John Lord and Rev. Frederick Gardley sworn to before Samuel D. Everett Esq. and herewith annexed. And this Court doth certify that the said Frederick Gardley is a Minister of the Gospel & Pastor of the Second Congregational Church in said town of Sharon and that said Joel Chaffee & John Lord are known to this court to be credible persons. And this Court doth further certify that Samuel D. Everett Esq. before whom said Affidavits were sworn & subscribed as now on for many years has been a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Litchfield that said Affidavits the certificates thereto annexed are known to this Court to be in the proper hands thereof of the said Samuel D. Everett Esq. And the said who Everetts also presented a copy of the Pay roll of Col. Samuel Church & settlement made thereon, certified by C. Ellsworth Clerk of the Pay Table Court at Hartford and herewith transmitted, which said C. Ellsworth is considered to be the same Oliver Ellsworth formerly Clerk of the Superior Court of the United States & whose hand thereon may be proved by reference to public docu- ments at Washington City. By the Court. Samuel Church Judge

I Abijah Peet Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Sharon do certify that these yours, proceedings contain the original proceedings of the said Court, and the additional proceedings in the matter of the application of Eliza Edwards for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal of Office at the Probate Office in Salisbury this 6. day of March 1833. Abijah C. Peet Clerk